Hereby I understood that he would bring me to a Mass. Whereto I
consenting, leaving DAVID JENKINS in the buttery, he brought me up:
where, after one SATWELL alias FOORD had said Mass, CAMPION prepared
himself to say Mass. And there was the first time that ever I saw
CAMPION in all my life: not having heard by any that he was there in
the house, before I was brought up into the chamber.
* * * * *
As concerning how he was taken, how he was brought up to London, and
how all things passed in that service; I have already set down in my
book imprinted: which conferring with his false report, you shall find
it as much to differ as truth doth from falsehood.
This have I thought good here to set down, in the reproof of him who
hath published such a manifest untruth: and as concerning what I have
reported to be spoken by PAYNE, I am ready at all times to
justify it with my death, that they are his words according as he spake
them.
By me GEORGE ELLIOT.
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[Footnote 4: In MUNDAY's _Brief Discourse, &c._ [24 July 1581]
there is a description of this "secret place"; which may be correct as
to its situation in the Manor House at Lyford:
A chamber, near the top of the house; which was but very simple:
having in it a large great shelf with divers tools and instruments
both upon it, and hanging by it; which they judged to belong to
some crossbow maker. The simpleness of the place caused them to use
small suspicion in it: and [they] were departing out again; but one
in the company, by good hap, espied a chink in the wall of boards
whereto this shelf was fastened, and through the same he perceived
some light. Drawing his dagger, he smit a great hole in it; and saw
there was a room behind it: whereat the rest stayed, searching for
some entrance into it; which by pulling down a shelf they found,
being a little hole for one to creep in at.]
The Copy of a Letter lately written
in metre by a young Gentlewoman
to her inconstant Lover.